Marsh Arabs protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf عرب الاهوار يحتجون ضد مشروع اليسو في “حسن كيف”
Cradle of Civilization at Risk of Desertification – Tigris Declaration sent to UN Hasankeyf, Turkey, May 22, 2012 “We have come from Iraq to speak, because no one came from Iraq to speak to us. We live in one of the most significant regions in the world – the Mesopotamian marshlands – which is in […]
What Justice for Iraqi Victims of Private Military and Security Companies?
The ICSSI Takes Action! The last ten years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of private military and security companies [PMSCs] in places of armed conflict, especially by the United States and the United Kingdom. These private companies have been implicated in illegal use of force, the killing of civilians, torture, sexual assault, […]
Lower Courts to Hear Iraqi Civilians’ Claims of Beatings, Forced Nudity, Broken Bones, and Rape at Hands of Corporate Defendants May 11, 2012, Richmond, VA – Today, a federal appellate court dismissed the appeals of two private military contractors who had argued they were immune from litigation when they engage in torture. The corporate defendants, CACI and […]
The Baghdad Marathon project was born 4 years ago from an Italian Runners group that think that Sports can have an important role in building Peace and Civil Society rights for freedom. From that moment we started to work hardly for bringing to know the project to NGO that are working in Iraq, having the […]
Motion proposed to Iraqi parliament
The Civil Peace Initiative in Iraq submitted to the Committee of Civil Society Organizations in the Iraqi Council of Representatives(ICR) (Iraqi parliament) a demand to vote on making 2012: a Year of Civic Peace in Iraq, and the adoption of the objectives of the initiative in making the civil peace as national priority for all […]
Support for the Iraqi campaign to repeal the new journalists’ law
Iraq’s Journalist Protection Law, approved in August 2011 by the Iraqi Parliament which was facing international pressure to reform its laws concerning the media, in fact constitutes a threat to independent media. It even leaves in place laws of the Saddam era that allow journalists to be imprisoned for up to seven years for insulting […]
Statement from the Baghdad People’s Summit: “People’s Issues! Not Rulers’ Issues”
Statement from the Baghdad People’s Summit “People’s Issues! Not Rulers’ Issues” A large and varied group of Iraqi civil society organizations gathered in Baghdad in the hall of the oil cultural center on 24 March 2012 for a people’s meeting held in parallel with the Arabic League Summit. Many representatives of the media and the […]
Campaign for Children’s Health in Iraq
The Campaign for Children’s Health in Iraq emerged from the Third Annual conference of The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), held in Erbil, the capital city of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region, October 8-9. 2011. Approximately 250 individuals and representatives of civil society organizations – Iraqis and internationals – attended. The conference statement, issued six weeks […]
Map of Archaeological and World Heritage Sites in Iraq (Feb 2012)
The Interagency Information and Analysis Unit of the United Nations has published a new map of the archaeological and World Heritage sites in Iraq. Available here: http://www.iauiraq.org/documents/1629/Map%20of%20Archaeological%20Site.pdf
Launch of petition to save World Heritage in Mesopotamia threatened by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River Today a worldwide petition addressed to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee is launched with the objective to save unique world cultural and natural heritage on the Tigris River inMesopotamia. Particularly, the unique antique town Hasankeyf, with a […]
“Summit of peoples, not summit of Rulers” – Statement from Tammuz
“Summit of peoples, not summit of Rulers” There are preparations are made for doing the Arabic summit in Baghdad in the last of the current month (March), this summit will be in Baghdad and have reflections advantages on the Arabic – Arabic relations, like closing the page of Iraqi isolation on his Arabic surroundings, […]
Plundering the Past: Scholarly Treasures
Plundering the Past: Scholarly Treasures “Not a year has passed without hunger in Iraq,” wrote the great Iraqi poet al-Sayyab (1926–1964) more than half a century ago in his memorable poem “Rainsong.” Now, many years and many wars later, there is hunger aplenty. Were he alive today, al-Sayyab would have expressed nothing short of horror at the […]